Hebrews 7:25 BSB — MannaFest

Hebrews 7:25

Therefore He is able to save completely those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to intercede for them.

BSB

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ASV

Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

KJV

Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.

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Commentary

2 voices

Gregory of Nazianzus

ON THE SON, THEOLOGICAL ORATION 4(30).14 (390)

Petition does not imply here, as it does in popular parlance, a desire for legal satisfaction; there is something humiliating in the idea. No, it means interceding for us in his role of mediator, in the way that the Spirit too is spoken of as "making petition" on our behalf. "For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus." Even at this moment he is, as human, interceding for my salvation, until he makes me divine by the power of his incarnate humanity.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

So that here is a manifest alteration much for the better. There is a remarkable difference in the moral qualifications of the priests. Those who were of the order of Aaron were not only mortal men, but sinful men, who had their sinful as well as natural infirmities; they needed to offer up sacrifices first for their own sins and then for the people.

The Nineteenth Century2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

Wherefore he is able also - As he ever lives, and ever intercedes, he has power to save. He does not begin the work of salvation, and then relinquish it by reason of death, but he lives on as long as it is necessary that anything should be done for the salvation of his people. We need a Saviour who has power, and Christ has shown that he has all the power which is needful to rescue man from eternal death.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Therefore, He has become not only a sacrifice, but an intercessor; His intercession being founded on His voluntary offering of Himself without spot to God. We are not only then in virtue of His sacrifice forgiven, but in virtue of the intercession admitted to favor and grace [ARCHBISHOP MAGEE].

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Original language & word study

20 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
ὅθεν	hothen	wherefore	G3606 →
καὶ	kai	also	G2532 →
σῴζειν	sōzein	to save	G4982 →
εἰς	eis	to	G1519 →
τὸ	to	the	G3588 →
παντελὲς	panteles	uttermost	G3838 →
δύναται	dunatai	He is able	G1410 →
τοὺς	tous	those	G3588 →
προσερχομένους	proserchomenous	drawing near	G4334 →
δι᾽	di᾽	through	G1223 →
αὐτοῦ	autou	Him	G846 →
τῷ	tō	<the>	G3588 →
θεῷ	theō	to God	G2316 →
πάντοτε	pantote	always	G3842 →
ζῶν	zōn	living	G2198 →
εἰς	eis	for	G1519 →
τὸ	to	<the>	G3588 →
ἐντυγχάνειν	entugchanein	to intercede	G1793 →
ὑπὲρ	huper	for	G5228 →
αὐτῶν.¶	autōn	them.	G846 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

The walk

The walk8

Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
leads to
- Acts 4:12
  Salvation exists in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.”
- John 10:9
  I am the gate. If anyone enters through Me, he will be saved. He will come in and go out and find pasture.
- Ephesians 2:18
  For through Him we both have access to the Father by one Spirit.
- John 11:25–26
  Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in Me will live, even though he dies.
- John 1:4
  In Him was life, and that life was the light of men.
Through
Jude 1:24
Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling and to present you unblemished in His glorious presence, with great joy—
leads to
- 2 Timothy 4:18
  And the Lord will rescue me from every evil action and bring me safely into His heavenly kingdom. To Him be the glory forever and ever. Amen.
- Ephesians 3:20
  Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
- Colossians 1:22
  But now He has reconciled you by Christ’s physical body through death to present you holy, unblemished, and blameless in His presence—

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The Meeting of Abraham and Melchizedek (Rubens)

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He is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near to God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession, the pastoral payoff of the whole priesthood argument.

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A full-scale Tabernacle model (Timna Park): where Aaron's house first ministered · Exo 28

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The High-Priestly Line

One family carried Israel's altar for a thousand years — until a priest arrived who needed no genealogy and would never die.

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Melchizedek: the King-Priest of Salem

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Moses and Aaron Appear before Pharaoh — engraving by Gustave Doré

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The Tabernacle

A floor plan of the gospel. Eight furniture pieces, three concentric zones, one veil torn the moment Christ died. Among the most architecturally complete typological structures in Scripture.

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The Ascension — Acts 1:1–11 · Luke 24:50–53

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The Priest

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Christ Presented to the People — Gustave Doré (engraving, public domain)

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01Commentary

The record, by era

Voices on this verse

02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

05Featured studies on this passage

06About Hebrews

The record, by era

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

Featured studies on this passage

About Hebrews